Revision as of 2012 October
by MJ. Smith
Midrash
Alternate Labels
- Midrashim
- Jewish Exegesis
- Halakah
- Tradition
- Exegetical Midrash
- Homiletical Midrash
- Aggadic Midrash
- Halakhic Midrash
- Tannaitic Midrash
Web Links
See also the topics:
Key Passages
Reading List
1. Articles
1.1. In English Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Midrash | Concise Oxford English Dictionary
- midrash | Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)
1.2. In Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Midrash | The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
- Midrash | Harper’s Bible Dictionary
- Midrash | Eerdmans Bible Dictionary
- Midrash | Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible
- MIDRASH | Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary
- Midrash | Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
- Midrash | Tyndale Bible Dictionary
- Midrash | Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
- Midrashim. | Dictionary of New Testament Background
- Midrash | Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
- Midrash | The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
- Midrash | Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible
- Midrash | The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
- midrash | The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 4, M–P
1.3. In Theological Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Midrash | New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
- Midrash | Vine’s complete expository dictionary of Old and New Testament words
- Midrash | Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
- Jewish Exegesis | Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
- midrash | Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek
- midrash | Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies
1.4. In Theological Journals
2. Chapters and Sections
2.1. In Systematic Theologies
2.2 In Methodological Books
2.3. In Other Books
- Page 286 | Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles, Vol. I
3.1 Old Testament Examples
3.2 New Testament Examples
- 1 Peter 5:13 | 1 Peter: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
4. Tzvee Zahavy
4.1 Bibliography
- Daniel Boyarin, Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash, Bloomington, 1990
- Roger Brooks, The Spirit of the Ten Commandments: shattering the myth of Rabbinic legalism, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990
- Jose Faur, Golden Doves with Silver Dots: Semiotics and textuality in rabbinic tradition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986
- Michael Fishbane, Biblical interpretation in ancient Israel, Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Moshe Greenberg, Parshanut ha-Mikra ha-yehudit : pirke mavo, Yerushalayim: Mosad Byalik, 1983
- David Halivni, Peshat and Derash: Plain and applied meaning in Rabbinic exegesis, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
- B. Holtz (ed.), Back to the Sources: Reading Classical Jewish Texts, New York, 1984
- James Kugel, In Potiphar’s House: the interpretive life of biblical texts, San Francisco: Harper, 1990
- J. Kugel and R. Greer, Early Biblical Interpretation, Philadelphia, 1986
- Ezra Zion Melamed, Mefarshe ha-Mikra : darkehem ve-shitotehem, Jerusalem: Hotsaat sefarim al-shem Y. L. Magnes, ha-Universitah ha-Ivrit; Tel Aviv: ha-Mekhirah ha-rashit, Yavneh, 1975.
- Jacob Neusner, The Midrash: An Introduction, Northvale: Aronson, 1990
- Gary G. Porton, Understanding Rabbinic Midrash, New York, 1985
- _____, “Midrash,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, New York: Anchor Books, 1992, vol iv, pp. 818-822
- David Stern, Parables in Midrash : narrative and exegesis in rabbinic literature, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
- J. W. Rogerson and Werner G. Jeanrond, “Interpretation, history of,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, New York: Anchor Books, 1992, vol. iii, pp. 424-443
- M.H. Segal, Parsanut HaMiqra, Jerusalem, 1952
- Burton L. Visotzky, “Hermeneutics, early rabbinic,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, New York: Anchor Books, 1992, vol. ii, pp. 154-155
- _____, Reading the Book : making the Bible a timeless text, New York: Anchor Books, 1991.